Legendary Brass Player'sl
While exhibiting at various conferences, we are amazed to learn that many students had not heard of their instrument's pioneers. Tuba students must know about the likes of William Bell and Harvey Phillips just as much as a horn student should know about Philip Farkas, a trombone student about Frank Crisafulli and Ed Kleinhammer, or a trumpet student about the remarkable career of Bud Herseth. Each year the International Horn Society, International Trumpet Guild, International Trombone Association and the International Tuba Euphonium Association have given their highest awards to some of the world's finest players. For a students researching on the net, not all brass organization have biographies. We hope to have all biographies available so teachers refer students here to learn about brass instrument's legends.

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Horn International Horn Society Honorary Life Members	Deceased Honorary Members Jerome Ashby Georges Barboteu John Barrows Vitali Bujanovsky Domenico Ceccarossi James Chambers Kaoru Chiba Alan Civil Philip F. Farkas Holger Fransman Carl Geyer Max Hess Herbert Holtz Anton Horner Wendell Hoss Marvin Howe Fritz Huth Edmond Leloir Antonio Iervolino Ifor James Kurt Janetzky Mason Jones Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto Walter Lawson Paul Mansur Harold Meek Ingbert Michelsen Richard Moore Reginald Morley-Pegge Valery Polekh Max Pottag Lorenzo Sansone James Stagliano Louis Stout Lucien Thévet Willem A. Valkenier James Winter   Honorary Members Paul Anderson Georges Barboteu Hermann Baumann Daniel Bourgue Bernhard Brüchle Dale Clevenger Peter Damm James Decker Vincent DeRosa Anthony Halstead Michael Hatfield Douglas Hill Michael Höltzel A. David Krehbiel Ib Lanzky-Otto J. Christopher Leuba Frank Lloyd K. Ethel Merker Erich Penzel Hans Pizka Verne Reynolds William C. Robinson Willie Ruff Gunther Schuller Norman Schweikert Lowell Shaw Barry Tuckwell Frřydis Ree Wekre
Trumpet International Trumpet Guild Lifetime Achievement members	Honorary Award 1987 – Roger Voisin 1992 – Maurice Andrč 1993 – Louis Armstrong Armando Ghitalla 1995 – Clifford Lillya Robert Nagel 1998 – Adolph "Bud"Herseth 1999 – Vince Chicowicz 2000 – Edward H. Tarr 2002 – Dizzy Gillespie 2003 – Clark Terry 2004 – Mel Broiles Clifford Brown Miles Davis Harry Glantz 2006 - Philip Smith 2007 - Maynard Ferguson Charles Schlueter 2008 - Maurice Murphy 2009 - Herb Alpert 2010 - Uan Rasey Other Awards 1977-Timofei Dokshizer 1979-Renold Schilke -            Plaque and honorary         lifetime membership 1979-Raphael Mendez -         Recognition Plaque 1982-Doc Severensen -         Recognition Plaque 1983-Robert King -         Recognition Plaque 1984-William Vacchiano -         Recognition Plaque
Trombone International Trombone Association Honorary Life Members	Emory Remington 1972 - Henry Romersa (Founder, International Trombone Workshop) 1973 - Lewis Van Haney (Former Professor, Indiana University) 1974 - Buddy Baker (Former Professor, University of Northern Colorado)  1975 - Robert King (Owner and Founder, Robert King Music Company) 1976 - Gordon Pulis (Former Principal Trombonist, New York Philharmonic) 1977 - John Coffey (Former Bass Trombonist, Boston Symphony Orchestra) 1978 - Stuart Dempster (Former Professor, University of Washington) 1979 - Thomas Beversdorf (Former Professor, Indiana University) 1980 - Thomas Everett (Professor, Harvard University) 1981 - Allen Ostrander (Former Bass Trombonist, New York Philharmonic) 1982 - George Roberts (Los Angeles based Freelance Trombonist) 1983 - Leon Brown (Former Professor, North Texas State University) 1984 - Neill Humfeld (Former Professor, East Texas State University) 1985 - Urbie Green (Jazz Artist, New York City) 1986 - Ed Kleinhammer (Former Bass Trombonist, Chicago Symphony) 1987 - William Cramer (Former Professor, Florida State University) 1988 - J. J. Johnson (Legendary Jazz Artist) 1989 - Denis Wick (Former Principal Trombonist, London Symphony Orchestra) 1990 - Frank Crisafulli (Former Trombonist, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)  1991 - Christian Lindberg (Virtuoso Solo Trombonist, Stockholm, Sweden) 1992 - Juliusz Pietrachowicz (Former Principal Trombonist, Warsaw Philharmonic) 1993 - Larry Wiehe (posthumously) (Former Trombone Soloist, United States Navy Band and United States Air Force Band) 1994 - Robert Isele (Former Trombone Soloist, United States Marine Band and Trombonist, National Symphony Orchestra) 1995 - Vern Kagarice (Professor, North Texas State University) 1996 - Carsten Svanberg (Professor, Musikhochschule, Graz, Austria) 1997 - Irvin Wagner (Professor, University of Oklahoma)  1998 - Carl Fontana (Legendary Jazz Artist, Las Vegas) 1999 - John Marcellus (Professor, Eastman School of Music) 2000 - Heinz Fadle (Professor, Detmold Hochschule for Musik, Germany) 2001 - Phil Wilson (Professor, Berklee College of Music) 2002 - Joseph Alessi - Principal Trombonist, New York Philharmonic 2003 - Ben van Dijk - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 2004 - Jay Friedman - Principal Trombonist Chicago Symphony 2005 - 2009 - Don Lusher -  Royal Marines School of Music 2010 - Phil Wilson              Stuart Dempster
Tuba - Euphonium International Tuba Euphonium Association Honorary Life Members	Lifetime Achievement Members Tuba William Bell Clifford Bevan Ronald Bishop Roger Bobo John H. Butler Don Butterfield Philip Catelinet Rex Conner  Ionel Dumitru John Fletcher Vaclav Hoza Dumitru Ionel Arnold Jacobs Tommy Johnson Chitate Kagawa Jan Koetsier David Kuehn Michael Lind R. Winston Morris Dan Perantoni Harvey Phillips Zdzislaw Piernik Chester Roberts Robert Ryker Kurahei Sato Jim Self Henry Charles Smith III Donald Stanley Lászlo Szábo Vilmos Szábo Abe Torchinsky Robert Tucci Constance (Connie) Weldon Raymond Young Euphonium Brian L. Bowman Leonard Falcone Arthur Lehman Earle Louder Rich Matteson Toru Miura Manufacturers Peter Hirsbrunner Willy Kurath Anton Meinl Composers Walter Hartley Alexi Lebedev Alec Wilder John Williams